Disasters and Recovery

If you want something to last 100 years, DONT't leave a Toshiba. I've got one, and it won't even last one year without breaking. I've had it for three years, and it's been in the repair shop 10 times, all because of product defects. The best would probably be one of the new Gateway laptops (can't remember the model). It also has a magnesium housing. -- -Jason Willgruber (roblwill(a)usaor.net) ICQ#: 1730318 <http://members.tripod.com/general_1> Ya know - the people at GRiD seem to have had a good idea about the magnesium casing...It just didn't catch on quick enough. -----Original Message----- From: Doug &lt;doug(a)blinkenlights.com&gt; To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers &lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt; Date: Sunday, January 17, 1999 1:49 PM Subject: Re: Disasters and Recovery >On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Chuck McManis wrote: > >> One of the reasons I want to have a completely spec'd Pentium class >> computer is to create an archive that will survive a reasonable amount of >> time (100 years in a time capsule). > >Don't leave them a clunky desktop box, leave them something like a sleek >Toshiba Portege 3010 (3lb notebook in magnesium case) along with a solar >cell so they can fire the thing up when they pull it out of the capsule. > >Remove all batteries, of course. > >-- Doug > >